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Refuge (Ded. Lit.)

It wasn't as if he attempted tardiness. He'd rather be on time. He loathed the looks that people gave him. But at least he wouldn't run into anyone on the way. Dmitri wasn't exactly a morning person- or a breakfast person, for that matter. However, he decided that breakfast was probably good. No one would be on his case if he ate. Dmitri made his way down the hall. Wonder what's being fed to us today.

Joshi tipped her head to the side, she picked up her waffle, it was plain, no need for a fork and took a bite out of it, after swallowing hs e spoke up again,
"I'm I don'' remem'er sayin' nothin'." she said, maybe she had spoken and had just forgoten. She took another bite out of her waffle.

Levi stared at his mush, hewasn't eating, there was nothing good for his system in there! They were feeding him like he was a weak minded human baby! He wasn't, he was a strong animal and deserved better food than mush veggies and fruit.

Dmitri reached the cafeteria and took a seat, a little removed from the others. He massaged his temples. It was really nice to have a consistent, perpetual, never-ending headache. Looked like he wasn't going to eat if he could help it. Not that he really could help it. This was going to be a bad day...

Mahoney sat in her dark paded room it was about lunch time. she knew this cause she could smell the food. then a guard unlocked her door to her room. "get up come on hurry it up we haven't got all day!" Mahoney got up slowly and walked out of her holding cell and followed the guard to the cafiteria. she sat down at the table that she always did. like always she sat alone. when her food was droped in front of her some splatered on to her shirt. the food smelled good but looked like some thing a pig would roll around in, but knowing that this would probably be the last thing she ate untill tomorow morning seh sighed and picked up her fork and shoved some into her mouth she swoloed with out chewing hopeing to god that she would choke and die, but she didn't. when it whend down her throught she all most threw up like always. as she sat there alone she wished that she was dead.

Joshi saw a girl alone in teh corner of the room. She'd always wondered who that girl was, she was always broght in by a guard and always ate alone. Joshi hadn't been taught it was rud eto stare so she ket looking at the girl, though she dazed off slightly thinking.

Mahoney looked across the cafiteria and saw a girl looking at her so she used her powers to push in to her mind and see what she was thinking. she was thinking about me. she looked at the girl and asked "what are you staring at" then she said "i'm just a freak like the rest off. take a picture it will last longer."

Joshi blinked, confused at first, then she ducked her head back to her food,
"I'm sorry." she mumbled, "I don'' 'ave a cam'ra." she added, she turned all her concentration on eating her food, her head hurt, Joshi didn't know how to describe the pain, but it hurt, alot.

mahoney used her powers again to read the girls mind and she felt the pain she was feeling. "hey i'm sorry i didn't mean it like that. i didn't mean to make you up set. its just that since i've been here i haven't talked to anyone let alone have some notice me" Mahoney said

The pain was suddenly moe stabbing and then went back to just throbbing, she turned back to the girl,
"I'm....." she paused, forgeting her name, you were supposed to introduce yourself when you met someone right? Her throbbing head wans't helping her think, she fingered her tag that hung around her neck as she strugle dto remember.

Joshi lifted her tag around her neck up and looked at the information on it, that's right her name was Joshi!
"I'm Joshi." she said letting the tag fall back to hanging around her neck. Maybe it was this food making ehr sick, she tipped teh cup of milk up and downed it.

Levi noticed there was a nothe rboy in the room who was eating mush like himself, it was crayon boy as Levi thought or him as. Levi hadn't really paid attention to anyone's name's, he'd just come up with a designation for each person. Everyoen else in the room seemed to have th other 'real' food. It must be a conspiriocy, maybe crayon boy was an animal too.

Pain flashed through Joshi's head like bolts of lightening, she was about to answer, but the pain made her grab at her head,
"Ow, ow." she muttered. Maybe she was allergic to something in teh food, maybe she was just dehydrated, but this head ache really hurt, she kept her fingers clutching at her head, tangling in her hair and satred at the ground,
"Ow!" she whispered.

Remus fell on the floor, spilling his food everywhere. His orderly sneered,"get off the floor Remus! You're making a scene!" Remus scowled. He knew that the overly had pushed him. I'll show you... he thought. He could feel the hum. Ohh noo... His food flew straight into the overly's face. "WHY YOU LITTLE!!" the overly screamed. He grabbed Remus' arm. "We're going to pay Mr. Grittle a visit..."
((is this ok for the overseer's name?))

Dmitri ate slowly and delicately. There wasn't any need to hurry. He just had to control his pace and his mood and nothing would happen. He was in control. He was in control. He was-

"Ow!" Dmitri had ben concentrating on his pace and his food. However, his tongue was not fortunate enough to be included in that group. He shut his mouth tightly as his eyes flashed silver for a moment. That was close.

Agony erupted in Joshi's head when something clattered to the floor and an oderly screaed at whoever had dropped something, she was staring at her shoes now,

"Ow, ow." she whispered. She didn't know why she had a headache and wasn't helping her in the least bit remember what do if she was sick. She'd been told many times what do when sick, but she'd ofrgotten, again.

Levi watched the scene with interest, his oderly wasn't paying attention to him anymore so Levi dropped to teh ground on all fours and satrted doing a four legged sprint for the kitchen, eh could find some meat in there while blind boy cuased a scene.

Dmitri looked around at the cause of the noise, seeing Remus on the ground. He simply sighed. For some reason, he wasn't sure that it was worth paying attention to. Dmitri's food was now abandoned as he watched on, hoping that there was no way in which he could be dragged into, well, anything

Evangeline had been slowly working her way through a plate of eggs. No needles or razor blades SO far, but you could never be too sure, especially in a place where kids seemed to attract sharp, dangerous objects like chubby toddlers at a beach attracted mosquitos.
But then she heard a crash, a looking past her own isolated lunch table, she saw chaos beginning to unfold. Food was all over the floor, some crazy kid was running around on all fours, people were shouting.....she felt it all overpower her.
Mental snapshots of her past, the scenes haunting her nightmares, flickered under her eyelids in a split second. Blood, gunshots, cries of pain, and the feeling that nothing would ever be safe again-
"NO!" shrieked Eleanor, flipping over her table, launching her innocent eggs into someone enjoying their own. "YOU WON'T TAKE ME, TOO!" Evanganline began lashing out at random people, seeing nothing but shades of red and lifeless eyes staring back at her, "No....don't take them away..."

Pain erupted like brght lights behind her eyes, agony making her groan, why couldn't people just be quiet, now one of the other girls was having a break down! Joshi just simply rockked back forth of her bench clutching her throbbing head,
"Ow, ow, ow." she cried softly.